Comments on: Announcing the Travel Rants Consumer Awards http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/2008/12/08/announcing-the-travel-rants-consumer-awards/ What to see in Europe & the best places to visit in Europe. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:13:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karen Bryan http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/2008/12/08/announcing-the-travel-rants-consumer-awards/#comment-207936 Karen Bryan Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:40:35 +0000 http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/?p=3305#comment-207936 Pedro. thanks for you comment. I wrote about the Travel Rants award as Travel Rants is a UK based travel blog and the Europe a la Carte was nominated in the Best Travel Blog category. Yet most of the nominations were indeed for US based travel content sites. i'm the editor of the Europe a la Carte blog, there are several other members of the blogging team and I don't dictate what they should write about. It's hard to get the balance right as I don't want the Europe a la Carte blog to be too parochial and the US is a large market for travellers looking for information to help plan their trip to Europe. Pedro. thanks for you comment. I wrote about the Travel Rants award as Travel Rants is a UK based travel blog and the Europe a la Carte was nominated in the Best Travel Blog category. Yet most of the nominations were indeed for US based travel content sites.

i’m the editor of the Europe a la Carte blog, there are several other members of the blogging team and I don’t dictate what they should write about. It’s hard to get the balance right as I don’t want the Europe a la Carte blog to be too parochial and the US is a large market for travellers looking for information to help plan their trip to Europe.

]]> By: Pedro_Jimenez http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/2008/12/08/announcing-the-travel-rants-consumer-awards/#comment-207931 Pedro_Jimenez Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:05:35 +0000 http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/?p=3305#comment-207931 I find it interesting that you give such great prominence to a very American persective on travel. Given your affection for Europe, and your business focus on Europe, why not publicise website and ventures that foreground European travel. You often quote TRIPADVISOR, as for example in a recent post on Brussels, but you ignore the galaxy of European websites that map onto your interests. Why not more mention of European rail booking websites, more mention of European media, etc. I am Spanish, work in Hungary and yet still I look first to English language publications like Granta, Wanderlust and Hidden Europe Magazine for top class travel writing. Yet these seem not to feature in your horizons. Pedro I find it interesting that you give such great prominence to a very American persective on travel. Given your affection for Europe, and your business focus on Europe, why not publicise website and ventures that foreground European travel. You often quote TRIPADVISOR, as for example in a recent post on Brussels, but you ignore the galaxy of European websites that map onto your interests. Why not more mention of European rail booking websites, more mention of European media, etc. I am Spanish, work in Hungary and yet still I look first to English language publications like Granta, Wanderlust and Hidden Europe Magazine for top class travel writing. Yet these seem not to feature in your horizons.
Pedro

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